American War Production Mission in China, 1944-1945

Collection Overview

Title: American War Production Mission in China, 1944-1945

ID: 30/32/

Extent: 19.66 Cubic Feet

Scope and Contents of the Materials

The records described in this preliminary inventory are those created or accumulated by the American War Production Mission in China. They are a part of Record Group 220, Records of Presidential Committees, Commissions and Boards, and amount to 11 cubic feet.

Administrative Information

Access Restrictions: These records contain documents restricted in accordance with Executive Order 12065.

Acquisition Method: The records of the American War Production Mission in China were accessioned by the National Archives and placed in Record Group 220, Records of Presidential Committees, Commissions and Boards. On July 22, 1959, they were transferred to the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library. These records are in public domain.

Other Note: Note to Researchers: This collection was rehoused in July 2006, and box numbers have changed slightly. If you have used a previous version of this finding aid, please cross-reference against this new finding aid to ensure that you are ordering the correct box.

Box and Folder Listing

Box 1

Agriculture and Forestry (1 of 2)
Agriculture and Forestry (2 of 2)
Air Cargo Priorities-W.P.B.
Airports
Alcohol-Liquid Fuels, Alcohol-General (1 of 2)
Alcohol-Liquid Fuels, Alcohol-General (2 of 2)
Alcohol-Liquid Fuels, Alcohol-Itineraries
Alcohol-Liquid Fuels, Control Commission
Alcohol-Liquid Fuels, Alcohol-Meetings and Conferences (1 of 2)
Alcohol-Liquid Fuels, Alcohol-Meetings and Conferences (2 of 2)
Alcohol-Liquid Fuels, Alcohol-Miscellaneous Reports (1 of 2)

Box 2

Alcohol-Liquid Fuels, Alcohol-Miscellaneous Reports (2 of 2)
Alcohol-Liquid Fuels, Alcohol-"A Plan Proposed for Improving Alcohol Industry in China"
Alcohol-Liquid Fuels, Alcohol Plants
Alcohol-Liquid Fuels, Brief Statement on
Alcohol-Liquid Fuels, Alcohol-Production-Consumption Requirements
Alcohol-Facts and Figures (1 of 2)
Alcohol-Facts and Figures (1 of 2)
Alcohol-Liquid Fuels, Alcohol-Raw Materials Control
Alcohol-Liquid Fuels, Alcohol-Storage Facilities
American Embassy Reports (1 of 5)
American Embassy Reports (2 of 5)

Box 3

American Embassy Reports (3 of 5)
American Embassy Reports (4 of 5)
American Embassy Reports (5 of 5)
Cables-Incoming Cables
Cables-Outgoing Cables
Cement
China-Cables (WARX and CFB) (1 of 3)

Box 4

China-Cables (WARX and CFB) (2 of 3)
China-Cables (WARX and CFB) (3 of 3)
Chemicals (1 of 2)
Chemicals (2 of 2)
China Trade News (By China America Council of Commerce and Ind.) (1 of 2)
China Trade News (By China America Council of Commerce and Ind.) (2 of 2)
Chinese Institute of Engineers

Box 5

Coal and Coke
Coal and Coke Advisory Committee
Coal Coking and Coke Oven Construction
Coal Mines-Physical Outlay and Related Subjects
Coal Production and Consumption (1 of 4)
Coal Production and Consumption (2 of 4)
Coal Production and Consumption (3 of 4)
Coal Production and Consumption (4 of 4)

Box 6

Coal Washing
China Mission: Coal and Coke (1 of 2)
China Mission: Coal and Coke (2 of 2)
Cooperatives
Correspondence: E. A. Locke, Jr. to J. A. Jacobson (1 of 3)
Correspondence: E. A. Locke, Jr. to J. A. Jacobson (2 of 3)
Correspondence: E. A. Locke, Jr. to J. A. Jacobson (3 of 3)
Correspondence: from J.A. Jacobson to E.A. Locke, Jr. (1 of 2), September 1944-July 1945

Box 7

Correspondence: from J.A. Jacobson to E.A. Locke, Jr. (2 of 2), September 1944-July 1945
Correspondence: from J.A. Jacobson to E.A. Locke, Jr. (1 of 2), August-November 1945
Correspondence: from J.A. Jacobson to E.A. Locke, Jr. (2 of 2), August-November 1945
Correspondence: from E.A. Locke, Jr. To Mission Members
Correspondence: from Mission Members to E.A. Locke, Jr. (1 of 2)
Correspondence: from Mission Members to E.A. Locke, Jr. (2 of 2)
Correspondence: between D.M Nelson and Mission Members
Correspondence: between Mission Members
Correspondence: Termination of American Production Mission

Box 8

Crucibles
Dehydration
Diary First Nelson Mission to China
Diary Log and Travel Orders (Second Trip)-China
Diary and Log of the Hurley-Nelson Mission-China
Current Economic Situation-China (1 of 2)
Current Economic Situation-China (2 of 2)
Economic Conditions-China (1 of 2)
Economic Conditions-China (2 of 2)
Electrical Equipment
Equipment-Inventories
Executive Committee on Economic Foreign Policy (1 of 2)
Executive Committee on Economic Foreign Policy (2 of 2)

Box 9

Expending
Finance
Finance and Foreign Trade-China (1 of 6)
Finance and Foreign Trade-China (2 of 6)
Finance and Foreign Trade-China (3 of 6)
Finance and Foreign Trade-China (4 of 6)
Finance and Foreign Trade-China (5 of 6)
Finance and Foreign Trade-China (6 of 6)
Flour Milling

Box 10

Foreign Economic Administration, "Report on Lend Lease Aid to China"
Foreign Economic Administration (Report) (1 of 2)
Foreign Economic Administration (Report) (2 of 2)
Formosa
Henderson Mission
Imports-Civilian Commodities
Industry, General Reports on China (1 of 3)
Industry, General Reports on China (2 of 3)
Industry, General Reports on China (3 of 3)
Industrial Management Association
Industrial and Mining Adjustment Administration
Industrialization of China

Box 11

Inspections (1 of 16)
Inspections (2 of 16)
Inspections (3 of 16)
Inspections (4 of 16)
Inspections (5 of 16)
Inspections (6 of 16)
Inspections (7 of 16)
Inspections (8 of 16)
Inspections (9 of 16)

Box 12

Inspections (10 of 16)
Inspections (11 of 16)
Inspections (12 of 16)
Inspections (13 of 16)
Inspections (14 of 16)
Inspections (15 of 16)
Inspections (16 of 16)

Box 13

Interdepartmental Committee on Economic Policy toward China (1 of 2)
Interdepartmental Committee on Economic Policy toward China (2 of 2)
International Training Administration, Inc.-China
Investments Subcommittee-China
Iron and Steel Production-Blast Furnaces and Pig Iron
Iron and Steel Production-Steel Production (1 of 3)
Iron and Steel Production-Steel Production (2 of 3)
Iron and Steel Production-Steel Production (3 of 3)

Box 14

Iron and Steel Production
Iron and Steel Production-Foundry Practice
Iron and Steel Production-Iron Ore, Conference on Demand and Supply of
Iron and Steel Production-Iron Ore
Iron and Steel Production-Iron and Steel Advisory Committee
Iron and Steel Production-Steel Production-Production Figures on
Iron and Steel Production-Rolling Mills
Iron and Steel Production-Wire Drawings and Tinning
Iron and Steel Production-Itineraries
Iron and Steel Production-Leather Tanning
Laws
Lend Lease (1 of 4)
Lend Lease (2 of 4)
Lend Lease (3 of 4)
Lend Lease (4 of 4)

Box 15

Lend Lease (Reports)
Literature
Lumber
Machine Tool Industry-Machine Works
Machine Tool Industry-Machine Industry Tool Advisory Committee
Machine Industry
Medicines
Metals-Non-Ferrous (Copper, Zinc, Lead, Etc.)
Metals-Salvage of Aluminum
Miscellaneous (1 of 4)

Box 16

Miscellaneous (2 of 4)
Miscellaneous (3 of 4)
Miscellaneous (4 of 4)
Munitions Production (1 of 2)
Munitions Production (2 of 2)
Munitions Production-Ordinance (1 of 4)
Munitions Production-Ordinance (2 of 4)
Munitions Production-Ordinance (3 of 4)
Munitions Production-Ordinance (4 of 4)

Box 17

Nails
National Bureau of Industrial Research
National Bureau of Mining and Metallurgical Research
Newspaper Clippings, September 1944-March 1945
Nelson Trip to China (1 of 4), August-October 1944
Nelson Trip to China (2 of 4), August-October 1944

Box 18

Nelson Trip to China (3 of 4), August-October 1944
Nelson Trip to China (4 of 4), August-October 1944
New Digests (1 of 3)
New Digests (2 of 3)
New Digests (3 of 3)
Personnel-Reports, Lists and Miscellaneous (1 of 2)
Personnel-Reports, Lists and Miscellaneous (2 of 2)
Personnel-Employment Applications in China
Personnel-Transportation for, in China

Box 19

Petroleum-Liquid Fuels-Petroleum (1 of 2)
Petroleum-Liquid Fuels-Petroleum (2 of 2)
Petroleum-Port Program
Post War Planning-Post War Industrialization, Planning and Reconstruction (1 of 3)
Post War Planning-Post War Industrialization, Planning and Reconstruction (2 of 3)
Post War Planning-Post War Industrialization, Planning and Reconstruction (3 of 3)

Box 20

Power-Power Advisory Committee, Electric
Power-Aluminum Wire
Power-General (1 of 3)
Power-General (2 of 3)
Power-General (3 of 3)
Power-Ipin
Power-Changshov
Power-Chengtu
Power-Chungking
Power-Kunming
Power-Kweiyang
Power-Luhsien
Power Projects (1 of 2)
Power Projects (2 of 2)
Power System

Box 21

Power Units (1 of 2)
Power Units (2 of 2)
Power Units and Equipment (1 of 3)
Power Units and Equipment (2 of 3)
Power Units and Equipment (3 of 3)
Power Plant Equipment
Power Supply-"China's Immediate Power Supply Problem"

Box 22

Production Programs
Production Statistics-Production, General Data on
Production Statistics-Production, Indices, on Industrial
Production Statistics-Production Figures on Industry in Occupied China, Formosa and Manchuria
Production Statistics-CWPB Production Statistics, November 1944-February 1945
Progress Reports-2nd Mission
Progress Reports (by J. A. Jacobson), September 25, 1944
Projects-Report of First Mission
Public Procurement
Publicity-Nelson Mission and Chinese War Production Board (1 of 2)

Box 23

Publicity-Nelson Mission and Chinese War Production Board (2 of 2)
References-Authorities
Reports-Mission Data Report, Summary of the Facts Obtained by the First Mission, September 1944
Reports-Iron and Steel-First Mission's Report
Reports-Memorandum on Japan's Industrial Development (2 reports)
Reports-Report of the First Steel Group of the Nelson Mission to China (3 reports)
Reports-Memoirs of Mineral resources of the Geological Survey of Szechwan
Reports-Report; Gavin, M.J., Kansu
Reports-Report; China-Excepts from China's Destiny

Box 24

Reports-Report on the Kansu Petroleum Production and Refining Administration
Reports-China Reports; Rich, Dr. John on the Szechwan Basin Personal Report (5 reports)
Reports-Personal Report; H.H. Fowler to Donal Nelson; Correspondence on China Mission-Datat Report
Reports-Nelson Mission (Coonley Report)
Reports-China Mission Data Report: A Summary of facts Obtained by the first Nelson Mission, September 1944
Reports-Bosch report (Shanghai)

Box 25

Requirements-SOS
Requirements-Requisitions
Soong, T.V.
Special Program-Ching
Special Program, 1945
Speeches and Sketches
Stabilization (Price Inflation)
Standards-Specifications

Box 26

Sugar
Supply Routes (2 reports)
Telecommunication System
Testing Equipment
Textiles (1 of 6)
Textiles (2 of 6)

Box 27

Textiles (3 of 6)
Textiles (4 of 6)
Textiles (5 of 6)
Textiles (6 of 6)
Transportation-Airplanes
Transportation-Automotive and General

Box 28

Transportation-Chrysler Project (1 of 2)
Transportation-Chrysler Project (2 of 2)
Transportation-Gasogenes
Transportation-Higgins Boats, H. LeHoy Whitney (1 of 2)
Transportation-Higgins Boats, H. LeHoy Whitney (2 of 2)
Transportation-Highway General Reports
Transportation-Department of Transportation, Department Priorities Requirements

Box 29

Transportation-Railway
Transportation-Communications (1 of 2)
Transportation-Communications (2 of 2)
Transportation-War Transportation Board
Transportation-Water
Transportation-U.N. Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (1 of 3)
Transportation-U.N. Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (2 of 3)

Box 30

Transportation-U.N. Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (3 of 3)
War Production Board-Advisory Committee
War Production Board-Budget
War Production Board-Chinese Merit Awards-Personnel
War Production Board-Debt Reports, Semi-Annual, June 30, 1945
War Production Board-Finance Committee
War Production Board-General (1 of 2)
War Production Board-General (2 of 2)
War Production Board-Office Equipment

Box 31

War Production Board-Organization and Regulation
War Production Board-Production Reporting
Wedemeyer Plan-Reports 1-35 (Jacobson-Chungking File) (1 of 2)
Wedemeyer Plan-Reports 1-35 (Jacobson-Chungking File) (2 of 2)

Box 32

War Production Board Reports-China-Reports 1-10
War Production Board Reports-China-Reports 11-15
War Production Board Reports-China-Reports 16-20
War Production Board Reports-China-Reports 21-25
War Production Board Reports-China-Reports 26-30

Box 33

War Production Board Reports-China-Reports 31-34
War Production Board Reports-China-Reports 35-39
War Production Board Reports-China-Reports 40-44
War Production Board Reports-China-Reports 45-48

Box 34

War Production Board Reports-China-Reports 49 & 50
War Production Board Reports-China-Reports 51 & 52
War Production Board Reports-China-Reports 53 & 54
War Production Board Reports-China-Reports 55
War Production Board Reports-China-Reports 56

Box 35

War Production Board Reports-China-Reports 57 & 58
War Production Board Reports-China-Reports 59 & 60
War Production Board Reports-China-Reports 61 & 62
War Production Board Reports-Distribution of Reports
War Production Board Reports-Master Conference File (Top Secret)
War Production Board Reports-Memoranda on Mission Conferences (1 of 3), August-September 1944

Box 36

War Production Board Reports-Memoranda on Mission Conferences (2 of 3), August-September 1944
War Production Board Reports-Memoranda on Mission Conferences (3 of 3), August-September 1944
War Production Board Reports-Mission Staff Notes on Conferences
War Production Board Reports-Miscellaneous Reports (3 reports)

Box 37

War Production Board Reports-Inventory of Chinese Government Supplies Stored in India
War Production Board Reports-The Post War Market of China
War Production Board Reports-Notes on China (Report)
War Production Board Reports-China after Seven Years of War (Report)
War Production Board Reports-Symbols appearing on Original Chinese Maps (Report)
War Production Board Reports-Gazetteer to Maps of Formosa (Taiwan)
War Production Board Reports-Gazetteer to Maps of Korea (Chosen)

Box 38

War Production Board Reports-Japanese Readings for Chinese Place Names (2 reports)
War Production Board Reports-Board on Geographical Names (Report)

Box 39

War Production Board Reports-Report of the First Steel Group of the Nelson Mission to China (4 reports)
History of the American War Production Mission in China (2 Bound Volumes)